“The business of a poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip.” – Samuel Johnson
A single tulip
The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still. ~Isaac Watts — a post for:
Hibiscus
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858
Redness
“The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes
Pears
“It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.” Edward Bunyard, ‘The Anatomy of Dessert’
Yearning
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” Edmund Hillary — Constant bickering, endless complaining… that’s something I hear from the people around me nearly every single day. They say that man, by nature, will never be content. We…
Temporarily out picking flowers….
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Vintage blossoms
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom. Cao Yu
